What are the tools and materials for paper cutting?

The main tools of paper cutting are carving knife, scissors, oil pan, grinding stone, powder bag, paper and so on.

Cutting knife; is the knife used to cut paper, there are large and small each can be, the large carve thick and straight line with, small carve round line and clothing patterns with. Secondly, a small pair of scissors (the head should be pointed) for trimming. Carving knife size should be suitable for use and carving, generally about three inches long, about two minutes wide, the mouth of the knife for the beveled mouth. Carving knife steel to be soft and hard, can be replaced by hacksaw blades, clockwork.

Oil plate: is the drawing of the drawing on top of the plate used for carving. The outer frame is made of wood, in the middle of the burnt sawdust and butter or suet, known as oil pan. Oil plate soft and hard to be appropriate, too hard to carve up the effort, too soft paper is easy to concave over. Beginners can be used instead of the old three clipboard, but can not be carved directly on the glass plate.

Sharpening stone: is the stone used to sharpen the knife, generally equipped with coarse and fine each one. Sharpening the knife first in the coarse stone grinding, after the fine stone grinding, in the fine stone is mainly grinding blade. Sharpening should pay attention to both sides of the grinding, so that the blade left and right average sharp.

Powder bag: is a square piece of cloth, in which put some diamond powder or taro powder, tied with a line, in the carving of the paper before the oil plate on a thin layer of pouncing on the powder, after the carving will not make the drawing stick in the oil plate.

Paper for paper-cutting: it is best to use rice paper dyed red, black, purple, dark blue and other colors of paper or local production of burlap dyed big red, green native paper, these papers are thin and loose, strong texture. Can be carved with many layers. Ordinary white newspaper set of big red paper or waxed paper can also be replaced, but one can only carve five or six, and the details, patterns are not easy to carve. Xuan paper dyed color paper and local soil paper without glossy, very simple, heavy, very distinctive.